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The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies

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 | #625842 in eBooks |  2012-10-16 |  2012-10-16 | File type: PDF

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Maybe a book for more of a specialist|By Robert Slocum|Oh my goodness what a lot of movies (and television). I knew about DW Griffiths. I've seen M and TRIUMPH OF WILL. The first hundred pages went along swimmingly for me.

Then I pretty much skipped the next hundred as Thomson takes us into 1930s Hollywood and French and English films I never heard of. I'm sure I ski|From Booklist|*Starred * Veteran essayist Thomson’s thoughtful new book is not just the story of traditional cinema; the “screen” of the title refers not only to the silver screen of the movies,

The Big Screen tells the enthralling story of the movies: their rise and spread, their remarkable influence over us, and the technology that made the screen—smaller now, but ever more ubiquitous—as important as the images it carries.

The Big Screen is not another history of the movies. Rather, it is a wide-ranging narrative about the movies and their signal role in modern life. At first, film was a waking dream, the gift of appearance d...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.The Big Screen: The Story of the Movies   |  David Thomson. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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